I decided to go to NDC after lunch, as the weather forecast was a bit more favourable. as you can see from the above photo, more water on the reserve.
The river level is much higher and Bubwith Ings has filled up.
From the Geoff Smith hide I saw a little grebe on the scrape and that was the only bird so i went down to the garganey hide. On the way I saw a flock of small birds near the flower meadow which I presumed to be linnets.
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Sadly some storm damage has occurred. The wind and rain were pouring in, so I sat round the corner.
A lot more water on the reserve, but not many birds.
A pair of mute swans were feeding in this sheltered part of the reserve. Further back on the grassland were about 1000 lapwing, a couple of hundred golden plover, at least a hundred dunlin and several redshanks.
There was a family group of whooper swans just the other side of the bund, They then came onto the bund to preen. Not a brilliant photo. It was raining and the wind was blowing the camera.
After a while they came off the bund and started to swim towards the hide, I dare not open the window, as I did not want to scare them, so these photos are through the rain soaked windows of the hide.
When they were about half way to the hide, they turned round and flew off.
A male stonechat was sheltering in the reeds.
I left about 3pm as it had stopped raining and the light was starting to fade.
Hoping to go to Filey tomorrow, weather permitting.
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